Mintlaw

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Village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

title: "Mintlaw" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-aberdeenshire", "buchan"] description: "Village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland" topic_path: "general/villages-in-aberdeenshire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mintlaw" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland ::

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Field	Value
official_name	Mintlaw
country	Scotland
map_type	Scotland
static_image	Mintlaw monument 10.JPG
static_image_width	240px
population
population_ref	()
os_grid_reference	NK000483
coordinates
post_town	PETERHEAD
postcode_area	AB
postcode_district	AB42
dial_code	01771
constituency_westminster	Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
unitary_scotland	Aberdeenshire
lieutenancy_scotland	Aberdeenshire
constituency_scottish_parliament	Aberdeenshire East
website	aberdeenshire.gov.uk
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| official_name= Mintlaw | country= Scotland | map_type= Scotland |static_image=Mintlaw monument 10.JPG |static_image_width=240px | population = | population_ref = () | os_grid_reference= NK000483 | coordinates = | post_town= PETERHEAD | postcode_area= AB | postcode_district= AB42 | dial_code= 01771 | constituency_westminster= Aberdeenshire North and Moray East | unitary_scotland= Aberdeenshire | lieutenancy_scotland = Aberdeenshire | constituency_scottish_parliament= Aberdeenshire East | website= aberdeenshire.gov.uk Mintlaw (literally meaning a smooth, flat place){{cite web | url = http://www.mintlawcc.btck.co.uk/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120217014542/http://www.mintlawcc.btck.co.uk/ | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 17 February 2012 | title = Mintlaw & District Community Council Homepage}} is a large village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It lies at the intersection of the A950 and A952 roads, west of Peterhead. The 2001 UK census records a population of 2,647 people.

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It supports a number of shops and local amenities such as a police station, library, dental surgery and group doctors' practice.

Aberdeenshire Museums Service is based in a new purpose-built museum building housing Aberdeenshire's large reserve collections, a conservation laboratory and the Discovery Centre. The service also runs another three museums: the nearby Aberdeenshire Farming Museum at Aden Country Park, home to the service nationally recognised agricultural collection, Arbuthnot Museum in Peterhead and Banchory Museum. Aden Country Park also contains a ruined mansion house, forest walks and a theme park.

History

The local area is rich in prehistory and historical features. Somewhat to the south of Mintlaw are a number of prehistoric monuments including Catto Long Barrow, Silver Cairn and many tumuli. In that same vicinity of the Laeca Burn watershed is the point d'appui of historical battles between invading Danes and indigenous Picts.

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Mintlaw was formed as a planned village around 1813 by James Ferguson the third Laird of Pitfour. Unlike many planned villages of the time, trees lined the streets and instead of having a square at the centre of the village, it was diamond-shaped. It was later redesigned to become a roundabout on the main route between Aberdeen and Fraserburgh.

Victorian times saw the coming in the 1860s of the Formartine and Buchan Railway from Dyce via Maud Junction to Peterhead. Mintlaw was a scheduled stop on this line. Old Deer and Mintlaw railway station was built a little to the west of the village, perhaps because this was more convenient for the Ferguson family of Pitfour and the Russell family of Aden. More affluent homes were built on Station Road to house businesses and professional people. The Post Office moved closer to the railway and became a Crown Office. Mintlaw Station was the postal address for this whole district for many years. The Crown Post Office was combined with that in Peterhead with the railway closure in the 1960s, and the village post office moved back to South Street. Telephone numbers, too, were Mintlaw Station until the early 1970s when the word Station was dropped.

Although the date of the village's founding is not known for sure; 2013 was marked as its bicentenary year.

Governance

Mintlaw is in the Buchan administrative area of Aberdeenshire and as of 2012 was the second-largest settlement of the area after Peterhead. For elections to the Scottish Parliament, the village is in the Aberdeenshire East and the North East Scotland electoral region. For elections to the House of Commons, Mintlaw is in the Aberdeenshire North and Moray East constituency, having been within the Banff and Buchan constituency before the 2024 general election.

Schools

Mintlaw has two primary schools: Mintlaw Primary School and Pitfour School.

Mintlaw Academy, on Station Road, is a local authority-run comprehensive secondary school serving Central Buchan. Prior to its opening on 9 December 1981, pupils in the school's catchment area travelled to academies in either Fraserburgh, Peterhead, Turrif or Ellon.

Notable people

Kim Little (born 1990), footballer and former vice-captain for the Scotland national team.

References

{{Scottish settlement population citation
Michael Hogan (2008) [http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/11227/catto.html#fieldnotes ''Catto Long Barrow fieldnotes'', The Modern Antiquarian]
Buchan, Alex R.. (2008). "Pitfour: The Blenheim of the North". Buchan Field Club.
McKean, Charles. (1990). "Banff & Buchan: an illustrated architectural guide". RIAS.
(May 2016). "Buchan Profile". [[Aberdeenshire Council]].
"Election Maps".
"Mintlaw Academy Handbook 2023/24". [[Aberdeenshire Council]].
(21 December 2021). "Celebrate like it's 1981 – 40 years of Mintlaw Academy".
Cryle, Ryan. (2021-09-01). "Mintlaw midfielder Kim Little retires from Scotland duty after 140 caps and 59 goals".

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